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"Partly autobiographical, slightly polemical, and thoroughly challenging, America Against Itself is an in-depth, multifaceted analysis of the pervasive cultural warfare that threatens to undermine the American social structure. Richard John Neuhaus, author of The Naked Public Square, employs a large measure of social criticism, moral philosophy, and religious reflection in analyzing this contemporary Kulturkampf. He addresses the limits and imperatives...
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Examines how McDonald's captures our imagination: as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture; as a symbol of the strength of consumerism; as a bellwether for the condition of labor in a globalized economy; and often, for better or worse, a powerful educational tool that often defines the nature of culture for hundreds of millions the world over. [back cover].
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Quest for Identity is a survey of the American experience from the close of World War II, through the Cold War and 9/11, to the present. It helps students understand postwar American history through a seamless narrative punctuated with accessible analyses. Randall Woods addresses and explains the major themes that punctuate the period: the Cold War, the Civil Rights and Women's Rights movements, and other great changes that led to major realignments...
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Biography of Jack Kerouac, called the King of the Beats, and described as the unwitting catalyst of the '60s counterculture, ground breaking author and a complex and compelling man. Provides a broad perspective on the Beat Generation's major and minor characters, their relationships to each other and their significance as artists.
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"A pervasive feeling at the end of World War II, notes Philip D. Beidler, was that Americans had "inherited the earth" and could look forward to a kind of golden age, the "Good Life after the Good War:" But this good life - for all its genuine possibilities - was only accessible to some and was countered by racial tensions, the fear of communism and nuclear war, gender inequalities, and a rising consumer culture, among other problems and anxieties."...
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Until the 1950s, the struggle to feed, clothe, and employ the nation drove most of American political life. From slavery to the New Deal, political parties organized around economic interests and engaged in fervent debate over the best allocation of agonizingly scarce resources. But with the explosion of the nationʼs economy in the years after World War II, a new set of needs began to emerge - a search for meaning and self-expression on one side,...
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A series of connected essays that provide information about various aspects of life in the United States during the 1940s and 1950s, discussing community and family, movies and television, science and technology, changing social attitudes and institutions, the Cold War and the consumer, postwar cultural changes, and other topics.
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